Lalo Schifrin
is a true Renaissance man. As
a pianist, composer and conductor,
he is equally at home conducting
a symphony orchestra, performing
at an international jazz festival,
scoring a film or television
show, or creating works for
the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
or the London Philharmonic and
even The Sultan of Oman. more
LALO
SCHIFRIN SOARS WITH SKY RIDERS!
(Pre
Order Now - Available July 28th)
Aleph Records
To Release The Beloved Soundtrack
From The 1976 Film
(June
12, 2009- Los Angeles, CA) –
Aleph Records will release the
soundtrack for Sky Riders on
July 28. Composer Lalo Schifrin
wrote the score, which features
breathtaking sequences of music
underscoring hang-gliders soaring
through the skies.
The 1976 film Sky Riders starred
Robert Kulp and Susannah York
as Jonas and Ellen Bracken.
The life of the international
industrialist and his family
seems perfect until Ellen and
the kids are kidnapped by terrorists
in Greece and are held in an
abandoned monastery. Inspector
Nicholas (Charles Aznavour)
unsuccessfully attempts to free
them leading Ellen’s ex-husband
(played by James Coburn) to
plan a rescue attempt of his
own. He hires a group of professional
mountain gliders to help rescue
the Brackens from the mountain
lair where they are being held.
Composer Lalo Schifrin is a
true Renaissance man. As a pianist,
composer and conductor, he is
equally at home conducting a
symphony orchestra, performing
at an international jazz festival,
scoring a film or television
show, or creating works for
the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra,
the London Philharmonic and
even The Sultan of Oman.
He has written more than 100
scores for films and television
including the classic scores
for Mission: Impossible, Mannix,
The Fox, Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt,
Dirty Harry, The Cincinnati
Kid, and The Amityville Horror.
Schifrin’s recent film
scores include Tango, all 3
films from the Rush Hour trilogy,
Bringing Down The House, The
Bridge of San Luis Rey, After
the Sunset, and Abominable.
To date, Lalo Schifrin has won
four Grammy™ Awards (with
twenty-one nominations), one
Cable ACE Award, and received
six Oscar™ nominations.
Schifrin’s score for
Sky Riders incorporates many
flavors. He utilizes the bouzouki
and touches of a traditional
Greek folk piece in “Climbers”,
eerie suspenseful power cues
like “The Terrorists”,
and traditional circus instrumentation
(brass, percussion, and glockenspiel)
to achieve a lightness underscoring
the first appearance of the
hang-gliders in “Flying
Circus”.
As described in the liner notes,
by Julie Kirgo, Sky Riders is
an interesting score in the
career of composer Schifrin.
Recorded in February of 1976,
a year that would see his Academy
Award™ nomination for
the more conventional orchestral
Voyage of the Damned, Sky Riders
“would prove to be the
last, for a time, in that long,
innovative line of jazz/funk-dominated
scores with which Schifrin made
his reputation.” It would
be over twenty years before
Schifrin would revisit that
style, when asked by Brett Ratner
to resurrect the funky sound
of Enter the Dragon for his
1997 film Money Talks.
Sky Riders will
be available in stores and via
iTunes July 28, 2009.
For more information
please contact Beth Krakower,
CineMedia Promotions @ 212.533.6864
or beth@cinemediapromotions.com
The Daytona Beach
International Festival
(DBIF), the largest international
and orchestral festival in Florida,
will honor Hollywood conductor,
composer and pianist Lalo Schifrin
with its first-ever PALM Award.
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Aleph
Records To Release The Soundtrack
For the Final Film Of The ‘Dirty
Harry’ Film Series (November
29, 2008- Los Angeles, CA) –
Aleph Records will release the
soundtrack for The Dead Pool
on January 13, 2009. The Dead
Pool was the fifth and final
film of the “Dirty Harry”
series. Composer Lalo Schifrin,
who composed the soundtracks
for Dirty Harry, Magnum Force,
and Sudden Impact wrote the
original music. Aleph Records
has released the soundtracks
for the first four films, including
The Enforcer, which was composed
by Jerry Fielding.
Dirty Harry introduced
audiences to the character of
Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood),
a no-nonsense cop who seems
to have trouble keeping his
partners alive. In The Dead
Pool, Harry finds himself in
the public eye, a20local celebrity
thanks to tabloid coverage.
He is added to a schlock horror
film crew’s ‘dead
pool’, a series of bets
as to who will die first, conceived
of by the director (played by
Liam Neeson).
A serial killer
who is an obsessed fan of the
director tries to fix the game
– and Harry realizes he
is next on the list. The film
boasts a spoof of the famed
car chase scene from Bullitt
this time with Harry being chased
by a remote controlled toy car,
loaded with explosives. Having
composed the music for Bullitt
as well as 3 of the 4 previous
films in the series -- Schifrin
was unavailable to score The
Enforcer due to a scheduling
snafu – Lalo Schifrin
was the natural choice to enter
The Dead Pool.
ORDER
NOW!!
GRAPHIC
NOVEL HAS ITS OWN SOUND
ALEPH RECORDS RELEASES SPOOKS
from Academy
award® nominated composer
LALO SCHIFRIN
–
FIRST HUNDRED COPIES WILL BE
AUTOGRAPHED --
Barry
Josephson to Adapt Graphic Novel
Into Feature Film!
ORDER
NOW!!
(September 8, 2008- Los
Angeles, CA) – For the
first time, a graphic novel
has a sound of its own! Composers
Lalo Schifrin and Andy Garfield
wrote 20 minutes of score for
the comic-turned graphic novel
SPOOKS
by Larry Hama (G.I. Joe) and
Ryan Schifrin (Abominable).
At the San Diego Comic Con this
past July, it was announced
that SPOOKS will be adapted
to a live action film by Men
in Black producer Barry Josephson.
The music for SPOOKS
was initially released via iTunes
in May, 2008. A special limited
edition CD, with only 500 copies
being pressed, will be offered
by Aleph Records exclusively
through their website www.schifrin.com
on September 17, 2008. The first
100 copies purchased will be
autographed by Lalo Schifrin.
SPOOKS
is a new military horror series
from Devil’s Due Publishing
created by Ryan Schifrin. The
comic sold out within its first
week of release in February,
2008. Now all four issues of
the comic can be found together
in one graphic ovel which was
released on July 23, 2008 with
extra bonuses including the
preview to the spinoff series
OMEGA TEAM.
The limited edition soundtrack
CD for SPOOKS,
composed by Lalo Schifrin and
Andy Garfield, will be available
exclusively at www.schifrin.com.
The music is also available
via iTunes and can be heard
streamed on the website www.spooksthecomic.com.
MISSION
IMPOSSIBLE: MY LIFE IN MUSIC
Mission
Impossible: My Life in Music
is the engaging autobiography
of Lalo Schifrin, the musician,
conductor, and composer of more
than 60 jazz and classical works
and over 100 film and television
scores, including Bullitt, the
Rush Hour series, Cool Hand
Luke, The Dead Pool, Tango,
The Fox, Voyage of the Damned,
The Amityville Horror, The Sting
II, and Mission Impossible.
Release
Date: July 28, 2008
THE
MUSIC OF LALO SCHIFRIN TO BE
FEATURED ON CD, FOR A COMIC,
AND ON A NEW VIDEO GAME!
Aleph
Records To Release The Soundtracks
for Sudden Impact
And SPOOKS,
The Music From Bullitt
to Appear In Hei$t
(March 31, 2008- Los Angeles,
CA) – Aleph Records will
release the soundtrack for Sudden
Impact and SPOOKS
on May 6.
Sudden Impact was the fourth
film of the five film “Dirty
Harry” series. Composer
Lalo Schifrin returned to the
series, after composing
Dirty Harry and
Magnum Force,
but not the third film
The Enforcer.
Aleph Records has released the
soundtracks for the first three
films. The complete soundtrack
to Sudden Impact
makes its debut for the first
time to CD. With only excerpts
released on the first “Dirty
Harry” LP, this is the
complete score plus additional
bonus tracks that have been
remixed from the original multi-track
masters.
In addition, on May 6, Aleph
Records will release the soundtrack
for SPOOKS
via iTunes, a new military horror
series from Devil’s Due
Publishing. SPOOKS
was created and co-written by
Schifrin’s son Ryan. The
comic is a hit and has sold
out within its first week and
all four issues will be turned
into a graphic novel in July.
The music, written by Lalo Schifrin
and Andy Garfield, appears on
the website for the comic (www.spooksthecomic.com).
Lalo previously scored the film
Abominable
for Ryan Schifrin.
CODEMASTERS has licensed tracks
from the film Bullitt,
composed by Lalo Schifrin.
HEI$T™ is
an all-new job pullin’,
bank robbin’ action-driving
game set in a gritty San Francisco,
circa 1969. HEI$T
has gamers taking charge of
a group of renegade criminals
as they rob, steal and shoot
their way throughout the city,
all the while their sights set
on the big score: taking the
San Francisco Mint. The video
game will be released in the
summer of 2008.
Sudden Impact
will be available in stores
and via iTunes on May 6, 2008.
SPOOKS
will be available via iTunes
on May 6.
CLICK
HERE TO SUDDEN IMPACT NOW!
It
is as appropiate as it is welcome
that this latest Aleph issue
focuses on Schifrin the pianist
as much as Schifrin the composer.
He is joined by James Morrison,
James Moody, Dennis Budimir,
Brian Bromberg, and Alex Acuña.
Of the nine selections, six
are Schifrin tunes: a testimony
to the rich variety of this
writer’s palette and range
of mood.
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HERE TO ORDER LALO'S CDS
ONLINE!
